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oil bottles

Why are cooking oil bottles fitted with non resealable lids? lemonade, vinegar etc, you can screw the lid down and thats it. oil bottle, flimsy cheapo lids, knock it over and its out of the bottle and...

redhelen

Cauliflower soup

Anyone tried it? i made a batch yesterday as cauli's are bogof at Tesco at the mo. Lovely - stuck a wee bit of chopped gammon through at the end after blending it - scrummy A huge pot of soup for...

Automan

Is my employer taking liberties with us?

I've been with my employer for 3 years and it's no secret that he's a tight sod moneywise. They've shut down the canteen, replaced lights with candles, introduced a rickety van with no seats and old...

abstibus

Wool duvet

Has anyone tried one of these? What is the optimum weight for winter - 300 or 500 gsm (whatever that means)? TIA...

JG1965

Freeview picture keeps breaking up at the same time every night

My Freeview picture keeps breaking up at 6.30pm every night, it has been going on for months, it is driving me up the wall, especially when I am trying to watch Strictly. It has been happening for...

beeseejay

Boccelli on Titchmarch

I caught Andrea Boccelli on the AT programme this afternoon. Anyone know if the song he sang, 'More', is from a new album. It is great and it is the first time I've heard him do a ballard backed by a...

Hammer

Free antivirus

I'm after some opinions here. We had some "ethical hackers" in at work today to show how rubbish we all are at keeping safe online and how easy it is to do naughty stuff if you want to....

Stayahead

Good quality secateurs

Can anyone please recommend a good quality secateurs? The last 2I bought were really useless. Felco and Wolf Garten have been suggested. Many thanks...

craft1948

Corrie............

Jeremy Sheffield is joining the street as the new love interest of Becky..........thank you God.

mungbeanz

smelly Air conditioning

It's a bit warm out, so I put on the air conditioning and it smelled like BO. I had a sniff of my pits to make sure it wasn't me. It was definitely the air con. Does this mean it's running low, or...

Stargazer

Oven tray with baked on food debris.

My daughter asked me how to clean the black metal baking tray that goes into her microwave/oven. It is black with black encrusted volcanic eruptions all over it from having been used agan and again...

Stargazer

Curved shower screen

I have a shower/bath and the curved screen has a strip of synthetic edging that stops the water from escaping where the screen meets the bath. This has become hard and welded itself to the glass...

Gromit

Matthew Boulton on the new £50 banknote

He just pipped Sir Bruce Forsythe to the honour. It was the most shocking result since Elizabeth Fry beat the highly fancied David Beckham onto the £5 note. And David Attenborough has...

gollysailor

Deutschland uber alles.

Now that many of us drive German cars, use German kitchen appliances, vacuum machines, etc., is it not time to take up German as a first language? What do you think Volks?...

ilovemarkb

turnip onions?

Homemade vegetable soup.......four hours later diarrhea? Soup was made from pre packed ready cut vegetables. I took most of the turnip out because it had gone brown. Huh try to be healthy and end up...

chirpychirpy

fifthly?

you know when you're explaing a series of points and you start them with firstly...secondly...thirdly... Well, I got to fifth and it felt wrong. I couldn't recall ever seeing 'fifthly' before. How...

answerbanker

home tooth whitening

Has anyone tried this - with success ?? Can you recommend any thing ? My teeth are not badly stained but would benefit from being a bit whiter. thanks...

old-wos-is-name

stainless steel knife

Hi all, I was chopping up a cabbage at lunchtime today and the othe half said not to cut it too finely as the stainless steel blade kills the vitamins and minerals. Is this right????? sounds rubbish...

Maydup

Self-service tills - how honest are we?

You're serving yourself at the self service till , you have five or six medium to low cost items and a one of them won't scan properly. After trying a couple of times do you just pop it in the bag?

whatwhat

Do the clocks change back tonight...

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